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00:00:00.000 Hello, podcasters. Great program for you today. Walmart plans on dialing things back, but

00:00:07.200 should we be happy with Walmart or worried about Walmart? Because it's much bigger than that.

00:00:14.340 It's involving the banks and everybody else running around the U.S. Constitution. Also,

00:00:20.700 Biden. I think this is the big story of the day. He is Dorian Gray. Blood shooting out of his eyes

00:00:28.680 at an incredible town hall, which we also cover. We talked a little bit about the way I celebrated

00:00:35.620 my wife's birthday. Dave Chappelle in the news again. Marianne Williamson actually speaks the

00:00:43.840 truth about something. And Dave Rubin, all on today's broadcast. And we should point out Dave

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00:01:09.680 We have two directions that we need to take on this, uh, this, the gun grab nonsense, actually 0.66

00:01:22.580 more than geez. We had, you know, more politicians coming out yesterday with their solutions.

00:01:28.380 Nobody's talking about mental health. Really? Nobody's talking about what is happening with

00:01:32.800 our society. There's clearly a hole in our society. Nobody wants to talk about that. They all want to

00:01:39.240 talk about guns and solutions. Okay, great. Well, now let's talk about, let's start with a solution

00:01:47.360 from corporate America. Uh, Walmart has plans to dramatically step back from ammunition sales

00:01:55.900 after what they say were horrific shootings. And they were, it's going to stop all handgun sales in

00:02:02.860 Alaska. And why in Alaska? I mean, if you need, if there's a place you need a gun, it probably is

00:02:09.520 Alaska. Uh, they're going to stop all handgun sales in Alaska, marking its complete exit from the handguns

00:02:16.240 category. Uh, Walmart also, and Sam's Club will no longer allow open carry firearms in the stores

00:02:23.740 where open carry is, is, uh, allowed. I mean, in Texas, nobody does, but you would wear it on your

00:02:29.360 hip if you wanted to, unless you're an authorized law enforcement officer. The open carry legislation

00:02:36.140 is currently on the books in more than 26 States. Walmart also, um, they're not changing their policy

00:02:44.900 yet for those who have permits for concealed carry, but they're adding signage in the stores about this.

00:02:51.360 Uh, they say that, you know, an open carry could be misinterpreted, uh, by somebody else.

00:02:57.020 And what they're going to pull their gun out and shoot shares of guns and ammunition, uh,

00:03:04.240 makers added to the losses early in the day. When it comes to, um, when it comes to, uh, the stock

00:03:11.440 market, Vista outdoor stock closed, uh, down 6%, Smith and Wesson, uh, its stock fell 4.5 Ruger and

00:03:22.140 company closed down 0.6 and Walmart ended the day up 0.3. They said that they are going to now no longer

00:03:31.000 sell the bullets that are used, uh, to kill people. And so they're not going to sell two, two, three,

00:03:39.200 uh, or is it, was it five, five, six or five? Oh, I can't remember the other one. Two, two, three and

00:03:46.960 five, something. I can never remember it. Uh, and two, two, seven. It was this, wasn't that a show in

00:03:53.240 the eighties? Uh, I believe it was room two 22. Okay. I think it's what you were talking about. Yeah.

00:04:00.200 They, the, the, the Alaska thing too was essentially their point, right? Like they only had them in

00:04:04.860 Alaska because it was the one place where they just, that was like the last place they decided

00:04:10.480 to sell them. And now they're even pulling them out of Alaska. Huge, uh, mass shooting problem in

00:04:15.260 Alaska. Yeah. It's a place you need them. It's a place you need them. It's, it's tough. You know,

00:04:21.960 I understand the idea here, right? You get pressure, you have a tragedy in one of your stores.

00:04:28.840 You can understand, uh, the, the idea that you want to do something, but we all know these things

00:04:35.080 will not be effective. The idea that because they're not at Walmart, people can't get guns.

00:04:39.960 Like, I mean, it's just ridiculous. Bad people are going to get guns. Yeah. They're going to get

00:04:44.560 guns. I mean, are there things that we can do to make sure everybody gets a background check? Yes,

00:04:50.620 but they have, they have ramifications everywhere. Now you, you have, uh, no place to buy bullets if

00:04:59.660 you're at Walmart and all these lefties are saying, Oh, we're going to shop at Walmart now.

00:05:04.540 No, you're not. You hate Walmart. You hate it. A, you think it's beneath you to shop at Walmart.

00:05:11.920 B, you've been against their policies because there's a big, you know, it's a, it's a big box

00:05:18.200 store. And so they're hurting their workers and they won't unionize and all of this crap.

00:05:22.640 They're not going to shop there. And I will tell you that if you shop at Walmart after this,

00:05:30.720 you are only going to aid all of the other industries that are going to do the same thing.

00:05:37.160 here's the thing. The founders never thought of the founders never considered that corporations

00:05:42.340 could become bigger than the government. The, the, the, um, uh, constitution and the bill of

00:05:51.440 rights says what the government cannot ever do, but it doesn't say what a corporation can and cannot

00:05:58.480 do. And I don't want it to, I want corporations to be able to do what they want to do. If Walmart wants

00:06:04.280 to do this, Walmart should be able to do this. The problem is there is a guy at the New York times

00:06:10.660 that is coordinating. A lot of this is openly advocating for all corporations, anyone in the

00:06:18.160 chain of supply, that's truckers, shippers, uh, gun manufacturers, gun, uh, sales, uh, credit card

00:06:26.440 companies, banks, anybody who touches a gun at all in any way to stop providing services.

00:06:36.220 Well, now, wait a minute. That's, that's infringing on my right to own a gun. If I can't buy it

00:06:42.920 anywhere, well, who needs the second amendment? The government could say, well, we didn't infringe,

00:06:49.600 but all these companies, yes, but they were coordinated. They're being coordinated by the left,

00:06:55.620 but there will be, I think, conservative companies that pop up and coordinate it the other way.

00:07:00.900 Um, they will push back on this stuff. I mean, you remember too, you gotta, it's, it's weird

00:07:04.780 with Walmart, right? It's a statement and the statement is really annoying, but of course,

00:07:09.340 Walmart was selling guns and all of their competitors don't, they were the only targets,

00:07:14.260 not selling guns. Yeah. Right. So the fact that they did it longer is, is an, I mean,

00:07:19.600 an argument that they actually, and they're still selling guns by the way. Yeah. They still

00:07:23.420 are selling guns. They're the only ones doing it in this, in this retail group. So it's a tough

00:07:28.220 one because they actually are doing more even now, uh, to, to get guns to people, uh, in America

00:07:34.540 than, you know, target is or any of their other main competitors. I go up to Idaho. I buy my ammunition,

00:07:39.200 uh, many times at Walmart. Now I can't, I mean, it's just, it's a tough one because they're the

00:07:47.960 ones making the statement. So you want to say, you know what? I want to show them that I don't

00:07:51.860 like that statement. However, these other companies have already made their statement.

00:07:55.400 They're currently making a statement by not selling guns at all. We would have these issues

00:07:58.560 occasionally because there'd be, um, you know, one of these organized boycott groups that would

00:08:02.160 come after us and they would, you know, one of these companies would pull their advertising from

00:08:07.100 the show or whatever. I mean, it was, was a lot more rare than was reported, but occasionally did

00:08:12.000 happen. And so one of these companies would pull their, um, advertising and our listeners who are

00:08:18.040 awesome would decide like, I'm going to essentially punish them and go out and call them like crazy

00:08:24.420 and make a big deal about it online. And it was all like motivated by really good things. And

00:08:28.500 it was like, we were cheering it on internally. Like there's a part of you that's just like,

00:08:32.860 yes, absolutely. However, there are multiple thousands of companies that avoid these shows

00:08:39.000 completely because of issues like that, because they know if, if something happens and they feel

00:08:44.420 like they need to pull their advertising, they're going to be the ones singled out, even though they

00:08:47.740 were the ones that were actually advertising on the show. Right. And so it's, it's like the one

00:08:52.140 who actually takes the risk. I mean, Walmart did stand up to a lot of pressure over many years

00:08:59.040 about gun sales. The fact that they're folding now to me is pathetic and it's wrong. And they're

00:09:04.640 doing something that's incorrect. However, we, I mean, you're going to give your business to

00:09:08.320 another company. I mean, 99% of businesses do not sell guns. Walmart still does.

00:09:14.420 So it's a, I, it is a, it's a tough, if Walmart isn't, if Walmart isn't hurt by this, it's like

00:09:21.100 Nike. Look what Nike did. Nike stock went up, their sales went up. You think they're learning

00:09:27.560 what lesson they're learning? Go for it. Okay. If Walmart doesn't, Walmart is different because

00:09:35.800 it's right in the heart of America. It should understand the heart of America and it's the

00:09:43.620 biggest retailer out there. So you have, you have Walmart doing this. If they don't feel any

00:09:50.160 pain from this, it makes everyone else. What I'm worried about, and I've been saying this for

00:09:56.580 what, two years, the banks, once the banks get involved and they say they're not going to loan

00:10:05.100 money to gun manufacturers, they're not going to loan money to gun stores, they're not going to allow

00:10:11.340 credit cards to be used to buy guns or bullets. Then it's a whole new world. Then you have,

00:10:17.180 what are you going to do? I want to buy a $3,000 gun. Okay. You pull $3,000 out of your bank account.

00:10:25.340 Are you going to be now on a watch list from the bank because you pulled a whole bunch of money out?

00:10:30.600 I have to try binding it with a credit card, right? It's going to be difficult. You've seen this happen

00:10:33.960 with marijuana across the country because it's not federally legal, still federally illegal,

00:10:39.880 but there's obviously every state is, you know, moving in this direction and many states have

00:10:44.300 already legalized it. So these businesses who are raking in tons and tons of cash have no place to

00:10:48.840 keep it. They have no place to keep it. They can't put their money in a bank. They have to like figure

00:10:52.920 out that there's all sorts of stories of people going to go buy homes. Like, you know, you're a marijuana

00:10:58.640 dealer. You take your money, you go and you buy a home in cash and then immediately sell it. And

00:11:04.400 that's how you get your money out because you're essentially laundering money through the system,

00:11:08.740 right? You can't put it in a bank. So that sort of thing could actually happen with guns where,

00:11:16.040 you know, look, the marijuana business is still thriving, but it's a parallel economy,

00:11:19.360 right? It's something it's completely outside of the main system again. And yes. And is this a good

00:11:25.220 thing, by the way, if you actually care about gun violence, is it a good thing that

00:11:28.620 all of these transactions are now going to happen in cash? Like, is that is that is this something

00:11:32.540 you're excited about? The ramifications of these dumb decisions are never considered until

00:11:40.420 afterwards. Much worse, much worse. The guy at the New York Times says, yes, because the most killers

00:11:46.500 can't afford the guns. So they have to put them on credit cards. Right? Yeah, that's their bigger

00:11:50.600 argument. Okay. Really? Okay. So it's only poor people are killing people? Because I know if I said 0.60

00:11:55.920 that we get thrown off the air, it's only poor people who are the murderers. That's that's one 1.00

00:12:00.740 that gets conservatives banned from radio. Okay, so this is this is the corporate realm. This is the

00:12:06.780 attack from the corporate realm. We know the political realm. But let me share with you what

00:12:13.380 I shared with you yesterday, first about something called BCI. And then what the Trump administration

00:12:19.780 has brought back to the table as a possible solution. It is. It is the beginning of the police state.

00:12:31.640 In no uncertain terms.

00:12:33.720 Hey, it's Glenn. And I want to tell you about something that you should either end your day

00:12:48.540 with or start your morning with. And that is the news and why it matters. If you like this show,

00:12:55.940 you're going to love the news and why it matters. It's a bunch of us that all get together at the end

00:13:00.540 of the day and just talk about the stories that matter to you and your life, the news and why it

00:13:05.160 matters. Look for it now wherever you download your favorite podcast. I've been telling you for a while

00:13:10.180 that we are entering a brave new world and that we must have these conversations now and discuss

00:13:17.240 right now what we're willing to accept and what we're not willing to accept. Because as they're rolled

00:13:24.080 out, if you don't really think about it, they're just going to be rolled out and everybody will accept

00:13:29.640 it and then everything will be fine until it's not. Okay, we have to decide, is there a line

00:13:37.300 and what that line is? Yesterday, I told you something about BCI. Those are brain computer

00:13:44.620 interfaces. This is reality. This is not science fiction. It's about a year with Elon Musk. It's about

00:13:52.640 a year away from actual human testing of this. But with Zuckerberg, it's already been tested and he has

00:14:03.220 the algorithm that can actually read your mind. It can take the neurons in your head, read them and

00:14:11.080 attach words to those neurons. Now you have to ask yourself, is there any privacy anymore? Do you have

00:14:18.580 a right to your own thoughts? Or does the government have a right to those thoughts? Do the corporations

00:14:26.440 have a right to those thoughts? By the way, it works two ways. Not only can it read, it can write. So in

00:14:33.400 other words, it can nudge you one way or another without you even knowing it. Now, Musk is saying that

00:14:41.360 we have to have this because we're not going to be able to handle AI. We will be destroyed by AI.

00:14:48.340 He said, we're just going to be too stupid and too slow to understand really anything that is going

00:14:53.880 on and it's going to become godlike. So we must be immersed in the internet. But remember, the internet

00:15:00.740 is two ways. Now, if you thought that was nuts, that is the end game step, I believe. That's when

00:15:14.000 Stephen Hawking becomes right. When he said, by 2050, Homo sapiens will no longer exist. He didn't mean

00:15:21.580 that all humans are going to die. What he meant was you will be so augmented by 2050 that you will no

00:15:27.900 longer be human. You're going to be a new hybrid and a new sort of a new sort of being. And there

00:15:35.320 won't be any natural human beings left because everyone will either want this or be required

00:15:42.420 to have it. Imagine if, if the guy working next to you was constantly wired to the internet and could

00:15:51.040 see everything. And when he meets somebody, he knows their name. He knows everything about them.

00:15:55.700 Uh, and you are sitting there. You're just a natural person. You're not going to be able to

00:16:01.900 compete. So is that the world you want? Now that seems like it's a long way away, but trust me, it is

00:16:11.280 not. Let me give you this. The Trump administration is considering a proposal that would use Google,

00:16:20.980 Amazon, and Apple to collect data on users who exhibit characteristics of mental illness that could

00:16:29.160 lead to violent behavior. The proposal is part of a initiative to create a health advanced research

00:16:37.260 projects agency or HARPA. It would be located inside the health and human services department.

00:16:44.340 Uh, the new agency would have a separate budget and the president would be responsible for ordering

00:16:50.760 its director. HARPA would take after defense advanced research project agency or DARPA, which serves as

00:16:59.820 the research arm for the Pentagon. Now this idea was first crafted and presented to the white house in

00:17:05.940 2017. Uh, but it failed to gather any ground. However, it has a renewed push. Susan Wright

00:17:14.540 foundation approached the president recently and proposed the agency include a project called stopping

00:17:21.700 abhorrent, um, fatal events by helping overcome mental extremes or safe home is the acronym who's against

00:17:29.620 safe home. Uh, the, the, uh, woman's wife is Bob Wright. He was former, uh, executive of NBC was the chair of NBC

00:17:41.780 close relationship with Donald Trump. They're now looking at your Apple watch and Amazon echo and Google home

00:17:51.340 to listen, to see if you have any disturbing patterns that the government should be aware of.

00:17:59.620 America. It's time to stop talking about the stupid, silly things and see the writing on the wall and

00:18:08.640 decide who are we and where are we going?

00:18:14.220 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:18:16.940 Hey, it's Glenn. And if you like what you hear on the program, you should check out Pat Gray

00:18:32.040 unleashed. His podcast is available wherever you download your favorite podcast. I want to introduce

00:18:37.500 you to somebody who's a guest of mine in the studio today. His name is Brett Johnson. Um,

00:18:43.100 I don't know Brett. I met him yesterday. Um, but Brett was, uh, Brett was listening to KNRS what two

00:18:51.140 days ago. Yeah. And I called in because yesterday was my wife's birthday and I'm in Los Angeles and

00:18:59.120 she always says to me, you know, I'll say, honey, what just it's 20 years. I've tried. I've tried.

00:19:05.380 I've tried everything I get. My wife, she does not like. Oh, you've bought her spectacular presents

00:19:10.360 and I bought little presents, spectacular. I've done everything. Every little combination, nothing,

00:19:15.800 nothing. And she's always, I don't need anything. And the minute, the minute that you would say,

00:19:23.880 okay, well, I won't get you anything. That's the worst move. I know that's a trap. Okay. I'm never

00:19:29.700 falling for that. I know that's a trap. So, um, we were, uh, we were traveling about a week ago

00:19:36.240 and, uh, we were in Utah, which has cafe Rio. Now, for some reason, my life, my wife, her,

00:19:45.440 her entire, if, if, if she could design heaven, it would be a cafe Rio. Okay. She, we have to have 0.60

00:19:55.580 cafe Rio cafe Rio. Yeah. We have to have cafe Rio the minute we land and the last thing before we

00:20:02.160 take off. Okay. Is it a, what can you describe it? It's a, yeah, it's a Mexican restaurant. It's

00:20:07.860 like a high end. No, it's like a Casa, uh, what is it? Casa Verde here. And it's better. Costa Vida.

00:20:14.600 Costa Vida. I don't think those are any, all over the place either, but like the, they're up from a

00:20:20.060 Taco Bell, but like, how about from a Chipotle a little above a Chipotle? Hmm. Is it a little

00:20:26.880 about the same? Yeah, I think it's about the same. Okay. So it's no big deal. It's just, it's a fast

00:20:31.840 food restaurant. Okay. Uh, and, uh, she loves it. And so, um, I thought to myself, that's what I'm

00:20:39.160 going to get her for her birthday. Cause she was having, cause they're in Los Angeles too. Uh, well

00:20:44.580 yes, but I didn't have any friends in Los Angeles and I was coming home too late. And so, uh, I was

00:20:52.420 in Los Angeles and I couldn't get, you think I'm going to get through security with a bunch of food

00:20:59.460 and everything else, not a chance in hell. Um, and they didn't have one past the security gates.

00:21:05.980 They actually are in, if I understand they're not even in Los Angeles, I don't think. Are they?

00:21:10.220 I don't know. I don't think they are. I think there's like, I think cause it, you know,

00:21:13.520 I do know a little bit about the story and we looked at it yesterday. I think there's

00:21:16.840 like, it's like Utah, Arizona, maybe there's one or two other States. I thought it was in

00:21:21.780 Los Angeles, but it could be wrong. Um, but I, so I knew I didn't have a chance. So I decided

00:21:26.940 to call Rod Arquette, who is at our station at KNRS in Salt Lake. And Rod is just a super

00:21:34.000 great guy. And he's just a normal guy. And I called him up and I said, Rod, this is, I know

00:21:37.860 this is really stupid. I said, but I want to get my wife a gift. And what

00:21:43.420 she really will want for her birthday is cafe Rio. And he just started laughing and

00:21:48.140 he's like, no, really? And I'm like, no, really? That's what she will want. That'd

00:21:51.780 be the best. I get so many husband points for this, but I don't know. I mean, I called

00:21:58.940 the attorney general's office and they're like, Glenn, we can't help you get food through

00:22:01.960 the TSA. And I'm like, really? I mean, there's nothing you can do. Threaten them with some

00:22:06.780 sort of investigation. They're like, no, so that's not the way it works. Well, I mean,

00:22:11.620 it is the way it works, but we're not doing that for you. So, uh, so I call Rod and I

00:22:17.640 said, Rod, I need somebody in your audience that can either, you know, get it to Delta

00:22:24.980 and then somebody at Delta that will put it on a plane. I'll buy a first class seat

00:22:29.160 if I have to, to put it on the plane. Then I'll have somebody pick it up. And well, we

00:22:35.840 got, we gave out, uh, my security guys private number. Cause he was like, well, what number?

00:22:42.140 And we hadn't even thought of that. We're like, Oh geez, we're thinking everything else. So

00:22:45.740 we get out his number. It rings all night, all night. People are calling and not like

00:22:51.780 your security needs an open line. Not at all. Not at all. So Brett is one of the guys who

00:22:56.980 calls and he calls and I'm listening. They have it on speakerphone and I'm listening. And

00:23:01.780 he's like, uh, yeah, I used to work for the airline. I don't anymore, but, uh, your system's

00:23:07.940 not going to work. You actually need somebody to go. Uh, and I'm willing to go, you know,

00:23:13.560 I just, I'm, I'm, I, I have a, I'm self-employed, blah, blah, blah. What was your thinking here

00:23:18.640 when you said you were willing to go on a trip to, I thought his wife wanted one burrito.

00:23:24.420 Okay. And you're like, Oh, that'll be easy. You'll bring a burrito on a plane. Yeah, no,

00:23:28.380 she wanted to, she had, it was a party with seven of her friends last night because I

00:23:32.960 was not supposed to be there. So seven of her friends and they all wanted the salad. I think

00:23:38.240 it's something with the dressing or something. I think we could have just gotten away with

00:23:41.000 the dressing. Um, but, uh, so they wanted salad. So I asked him, could you, can you, can

00:23:47.400 you bring seven, seven, uh, salads, uh, to Dallas? Yeah. Well, I knew your plan wasn't

00:23:54.240 going to work. You can't go and put food on a seat in an airplane and have it end up where

00:23:58.840 it's going to go. Really? No. That should be something that exists though. It doesn't.

00:24:04.660 No. No. So I, I knew, I knew you'd need a warm body to, to haul it out there. And I've,

00:24:09.680 I've traveled a lot over the years and not uncommon for me to fly to a city for an hour and fly back.

00:24:15.260 So, so what did the people in your life think of this? Well, obviously that it's insane.

00:24:23.260 Yeah. But not surprised. Right. Right. It sounds like something you'd do. Right. That's what my

00:24:28.580 wife said. Right. So put those two statements together for a second. It's insane. And it 0.92

00:24:32.660 sounds like something you would do. What is he saying about you, Glenn? Uh, no, I think he was

00:24:38.120 saying it was something that he would do that I would do. He's insane. Oh, okay. Well, now the idea

00:24:43.340 that you hired an insane person to, to bring Mexican food across state lines. Right. We 0.79

00:24:47.360 did talk about that. Okay. Yeah. We did talk about that. Yeah. Well, the idea that his wife

00:24:50.840 wanted Cafe Rio, I mean, uh, Cafe Rio is awesome. I mean, huge fan of Cafe Rio. And I was telling

00:24:56.240 Glenn, I said, I often get that text on my way home from work. Cafe Rio? Question mark? Yeah. Yeah. I

00:25:02.480 know what I have to do now. Right. It's Cafe Rio. It's Cafe Rio. So last night, so we met him

00:25:07.900 at the airport because I was coming in, he got in at what? Two o'clock? Yeah. And so we had somebody

00:25:12.960 meet him at the airport to take the food, uh, to make sure that it was, you know, not all

00:25:18.480 now all poisoned because it was sitting out all day. Did you grab a chip at all? Did you

00:25:22.580 get anything? Did you eat any of the food on the way? I did not. Yeah. So, uh, he delivered

00:25:27.440 it perfectly. So we got it. And, and then I come into the airport about five 30 and we're

00:25:33.160 just chatting. And I said, you got to stay the night, uh, and, and, you know, just come

00:25:36.900 in for the breakfast for the radio show the next day. Uh, and then, so he's going home

00:25:41.740 today, but I, I, I want you to know, I set it all up about six 30 last night. Everybody

00:25:48.700 was coming over at seven. I'm not even invited to this party. And, uh, I tell my wife, just

00:25:54.740 get out of the kitchen for a while. And I said, I set it up and it's in these, you know,

00:25:59.560 these tins, you know, the, you know, regular fast food tins and it's in these tins. And

00:26:05.280 I just set it all up. Uh, and the, all the girls come over and my wife walks in and, uh, 1.00

00:26:12.160 she looks and she said, is, is this cafe Rio? And I said, yes. She said, how did you get

00:26:23.160 it here? And I said, it was very complex and we're currently paying for a man staying at

00:26:29.120 a hotel. Uh, and all the, all of her friends said, it's weird. This cafe real thing is

00:26:36.780 weird, especially with women. They all said, wait a minute, this isn't Costa Vida. And I 1.00

00:26:41.880 said, no, that's cafe Rio. And they all looked at me and then they looked at her and then

00:26:46.180 they looked at me and they went, you're a good husband, Brett. Thank you for those points.

00:26:53.260 Wow. Amazing. And first of all, you should be getting Brett cafe Rio free for the rest of

00:26:57.800 your life for this. I hope they're hearing this because, uh, that you should be hooked

00:27:02.700 up for every text that comes in, uh, should be a free meal for you. Yeah. That's an amazing

00:27:07.240 job. Well, thank you for doing that. Well, this has been a lot of fun. I mean, when I was

00:27:10.360 telling Glenn, I said, you know, uh, I'm a stranger to you, but you guys aren't a stranger

00:27:13.840 to me. I've listened to you guys for a long time. So when you made the request, it was like

00:27:16.880 a friend needing help. So it was so cool. It was so cool. And that's the way that's, that's

00:27:21.340 the way all of these calls were all of these calls were like, Glenn, tell Glenn, I'll help

00:27:26.420 him out anyway. What's he need? Uh, I'll get it from here to there. I'll do whatever.

00:27:30.920 I mean, it was really neat. We have great listeners. And now you're married for another

00:27:34.080 day, which is always a surprise. It is, it is me and tonight because there's no cafe

00:27:39.180 Rio, but, uh, thank you so much. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:27:46.260 Hey, it's Glenn. And if you like what you hear on the program, you should check out Pat

00:28:00.980 Gray unleashed. His podcast is available wherever you download your favorite podcast. So, uh,

00:28:07.260 Kevin Hart is in trouble with the left again. You know, if you don't say exactly what these

00:28:14.260 Nazis want, uh, you're, you're out. I mean, they're just, they're going to destroy Kevin

00:28:20.140 Hart. They're going to do their best to destroy Kevin Hart. Kevin Hart, I think is funny enough

00:28:25.060 and big enough to survive. Not in height. No, not clearly not in height, not in, in, in,

00:28:32.760 in prominence. Yeah. So he is, um, uh, he, he was on some sort of a podcast with some

00:28:41.720 singer. That's what do you know who the singer is? I do not know. Okay. He's some singer,

00:28:48.320 some singer I've never heard of. You probably haven't either. And there's those who do know

00:28:52.340 are screaming in their cars right now. How can you not know what's his face? All right,

00:28:56.580 whatever. I get it. Um, but he just came out as gay and, uh, and Kevin Hart said while there

00:29:05.900 to him, you know, I don't, I just don't see this as a big deal. Why is this such a big

00:29:09.920 deal? Well, if you grew up in the black community, Kevin, you'd know why it's such a big deal. 1.00

00:29:14.780 Yeah, but it's not, it's not, well, that's not good enough because he didn't recognize,

00:29:19.620 uh, homophobia. And so he was being very, very, uh, unfeeling to all gays because he wouldn't

00:29:30.480 recognize the homophobia and, and the bravery that it takes to come out. Okay. Maybe it takes

00:29:37.100 bravery to come out and especially in some, you know, communities or some families. And I recognize

00:29:43.280 that, but the rest of us feel like Kevin Hart. Who cares? Who cares? I don't, I don't need to know

00:29:52.780 about your sexuality. You don't want to hear about mine. You want to hear, you want to hear about,

00:29:56.740 yeah, you know, when my wife and I start to feel a little rendy, you don't. Okay. Shut up. Shut up.

00:30:03.780 Shut up. I feel the same way. I don't want to know about anybody's sex life. I don't need to know it.

00:30:10.560 Now is it Lil Nas X? Lil Nas X. Lil Nas. There's no T's. Lil Nas X. Yeah. Uh, Old Town Road would be

00:30:20.060 the song you may have penetrated your world if you do have children. Nope. Um, but, uh, yes, very

00:30:25.340 popular. Uh, my kids, I swear to you, listen to Dean Martin and I mean, it's, they're weirdos. That

00:30:31.240 is not surprising at all. They are weirdos. Not the weirdos part that, you know, I know them,

00:30:36.280 so they're, they're not weird, but, uh, the fact that they listen to Dean Martin around your house

00:30:40.040 does not surprise me at all. Yeah. So Lil Nas, Lil Nas may have penetrated their world,

00:30:46.480 but it hasn't penetrated mine. Maybe Lil Nas X or Lil Nas 10, which it's one of the two.

00:30:51.840 There may have been nine Lil Nas's before him. Just so you know that. Well, it's probably

00:30:57.680 X because maybe it's like Malcolm X. Maybe he's related to Malcolm X. First of all, it is definitely

00:31:04.500 X. However, I like the idea that there was nine Lil Nas's before him. So I'm going with Lil Nas 10.

00:31:10.480 So it's like senior, junior, the third, and X. Okay. I got it. Okay. You know, this is Dave Chappelle in

00:31:17.900 his, in his comedy special, which again, does not surprise anyone in the country. Doesn't surprise

00:31:26.820 anyone that all of the critics are giving it on Rotten Tomatoes, giving it a zero rating.

00:31:33.760 It's come back a little bit now. Has it? Yeah.

00:31:36.280 A little bit. A little bit.

00:31:38.720 Yeah. His, cause it was initially legitimately zero percent. Yeah. Right. From the critics.

00:31:43.200 What is it now? Six? Uh, last time I saw it was 33. Oh wow. 33. Uh, it is now 30, 33% from

00:31:48.760 critics, uh, 99% from fans. Okay. This just goes to prove that the elites and people that I never

00:31:57.620 thought of, of, you know, Rotten Tomatoes as elites. Well, I mean, Rotten Tomatoes is just compiling

00:32:03.180 critics. I mean, they're not, they have no opinion. Well, no, they selected, they hired an, an, an, an additional,

00:32:07.620 I think, hundred critics here recently. Mm-hmm. So they are, they are picking and choosing

00:32:12.960 the critics. Okay. Yeah. I mean, they also definitely though, carry the reviews of conservative

00:32:18.680 critics. Whatever. Yeah. Whatever. But, um, it just goes to show you that, I mean, that's

00:32:23.680 why I, have you ever asked what the critics say on any movie? I mean, I, I, I do. And we've

00:32:31.560 talked about this before. Yeah. Cause I, it depends on the movie, right? Like if you have a movie

00:32:35.860 that's like an action movie or a horror movie, the, the critics reviews usually aren't that

00:32:41.740 important because. Yeah. So if I'm going to a Jane Austen movie, maybe I'll listen to the

00:32:46.780 critics. Yeah. I think like, I think a lot of times you find, you know, certain like, like

00:32:51.920 dramas and indie films and stuff. You can tell a lot from the critics, I think. Um, and you

00:32:56.520 could also tell a lot from the politics of it. I mean, it's very, if the politics are bad,

00:33:02.420 when I say bad, I mean bad to the left. If the politics of the movie can be interpreted

00:33:06.780 that way, you can guarantee a negative, uh, percentage from critics. Cause that's what

00:33:12.100 they will see in it. It's almost like if you were to watch a funny show, a funny comedian,

00:33:16.260 this happens all the time with the, with, with conservatives, a funny movie, but the messaging

00:33:20.140 is constantly berating you over the head with, you know, global warming or whatever left-wing

00:33:24.840 cause they're pushing. A hundred percent. It affects your experience. Yeah. And the same

00:33:28.580 thing happens to critics. They are hardcore leftists generally, and they get these, they

00:33:34.700 watch these movies and all they see is Ronald Reagan isn't treated like Hitler. Like I can't, 0.66

00:33:40.660 I can't watch this. And it's automatic negative review. So I definitely do think that that that's

00:33:45.220 a legitimate thing that permeates. It's legitimate. Obviously look at Dave Chappelle. Yeah. Dave

00:33:49.480 Chappelle is taking on the left, uh, and they don't like it. Yeah. They don't like it. What's

00:33:56.100 interesting about this one in particular, Glenn, is that Chappelle does this stuff all

00:34:00.160 the time. Like all of Chappelle's specials have these types of moments in them where

00:34:05.980 he's being critical of the culture in a way that, you know, your average CNN pundit would

00:34:10.680 not be comfortable with. He, you know, it's the same thing with Louis CK and you know, there's

00:34:15.260 a whole, there, the, the people who are the real legends of current comedy and both of Chappelle

00:34:20.960 and Louis CK would be in that category. Um, they are all comfortable going into those

00:34:27.700 areas where you're not supposed to go, which is what makes them great. You know, partially

00:34:31.720 they're also technicians of what they do, but it's, that's part of it. Like that is what

00:34:36.420 is part of comedy. And so Chappelle's always done this like, like, like, like, uh, um, uh,

00:34:43.900 Oh shoot. What's his name? Uh, friend of ours, pale Jim Gaffigan. He said pale and I knew

00:34:49.120 right away. So, uh, Jim Gaffigan, he is a political really. Yeah. And he is a absolute technician.

00:34:55.860 I mean, you watch him. He is brilliant on the technical side of Amazon special is hold

00:35:02.000 your sides. Busta gut funny. It's almost too many laughs in a row and too fast, right? Too

00:35:06.220 fast. And, and he's absolutely brilliant, but he's not political at all, but that's who

00:35:13.860 he is. And, and, and he's not saying anything really controversial except yeah, I'm fat and

00:35:19.400 I don't mind. And I don't mind, uh, where Chappelle is, you know, some of the we're starting

00:35:25.860 to see the beginnings of, of a Lenny Bruce where you're getting these guys who are taking

00:35:32.560 the establishment on. And that is always been that way, but it wasn't until recently that

00:35:39.420 the left was the establishment and they don't want you to take it on culture.

00:35:43.860 Is the establishment and they are sick of it. I mean, comedians are sick of it. So

00:35:47.400 listen, here's the, we have two clips here of him talking about Kevin Hart. Here's clip

00:35:51.280 number one, Kevin Hart.

00:35:53.720 They even got poor Kevin Hart. Can you imagine such a thing? Kevin Hart. Let me tell you something.

00:35:59.280 It was, it was Kevin Hart's dream to host the Oscars. That's what he told me. And I remember

00:36:06.880 when he told me, cause I was thinking to myself, well, this is an awfully strange dream for an

00:36:11.320 African-American. He had dreams of hosting the Oscars. Kevin did. That's who. And he did it.

00:36:23.320 Against all the odds, Kevin became the most famous comedian this world has ever seen. And he got the

00:36:29.240 job that only one black man before him had had. He was going to host the 80th Oscars. And I don't 0.99

00:36:34.900 know what you know about Kevin, but I know Kevin Hart is damn near perfect. As close to perfect as

00:36:40.800 anybody I've ever seen. In fact, Kevin is precisely four tweets shy of being perfect.

00:36:49.260 Meaning the four tweets that he tweeted out years ago, uh, that everybody was pouncing on here. He goes

00:36:57.780 into the gay community. He, he follows this with, he's not a bigot. He's not against homosexuals. And

00:37:07.280 then he starts going on the gay community. Listen to this. Ooh, the gay community was furious and I don't 0.99

00:37:15.020 blame him. I got a lot of gay friends and all of them, a hundred percent of them all have told me

00:37:22.100 horror stories about the they had to go through just to be themselves. Crazy, crazy stories. And

00:37:28.320 in all those stories, I got to say, not one of them has ever mentioned anything like their father

00:37:34.340 smashing a dollhouse over their head. Which is what Kevin says. Clearly Kevin was joking.

00:37:42.800 Right. And that's the thing. Jokes are now treated as if they're serious statements when it's

00:37:49.880 convenient. Like, listen to this review. This is one of the reviews from Rotten Tomatoes. It's

00:37:53.880 negative. Lacking empathy can certainly be amusing, but sticks and stones. The Dave Chappelle special

00:37:59.980 is a tired routine by a man who forgot to layer jokes into his act too often sounding like a pundit on

00:38:07.200 Fox News. Unbelievable. How could you possibly watch that? This is the first time I have heard someone

00:38:13.140 in a long time do things that was the opposite of fishing for claptor. Everything we see is all

00:38:21.860 about claptor now. This guy doesn't care if you clap or laugh or anything. He's just saying what he

00:38:28.780 thinks is funny. And it's funny all the way through. And it takes on both sides. Here's why

00:38:36.280 here's why he got in trouble. Continue on to alphabet people.

00:38:41.780 But you see what I didn't realize at the time and what Kevin had to learn the hard way is we were

00:38:46.940 breaking an unwritten and unspoken rule of show business. And if I say it, you'll know that I'm

00:38:53.160 telling you the truth. The rule is that no matter what you do in your artistic expression, you are

00:38:58.440 never, ever allowed to upset the alphabet people. You know who I mean. Those people that took 20%

00:39:14.580 in the alphabet for themselves. I'd say the letters, but I don't want to conjure their anger.

00:39:26.820 I mean, it is amazing that that stuff is being said by someone who, by the way, was absolutely

00:39:32.900 revered without exception by the left as of two weeks ago. One more clip. He talks about the

00:39:40.580 the T's in the alphabet. People be surprised. I have friends, all kinds of letters. Everybody

00:39:46.140 loves me and I love everybody. I got friends who are L's. I got friends who are B's. And I got 0.99

00:39:51.120 friends who are G's. But the T's hate my guts. And I don't blame them. It's not their fault. It's 1.00

00:40:04.500 mine. I can't stop telling jokes about this. I don't want to write these jokes, but I just can't stop.

00:40:19.180 You know, you hear all those letters together all the time. LBGT, LBGT. And you think it's just

00:40:25.240 one big movement. It's not. All those letters are their own movement. They just travel in the

00:40:32.420 same car together. He talks about them in the car. And it is very funny. Dave Chappelle,

00:40:41.520 Sticks and Stones. It's a Netflix special. Critics don't like it. Audience loves it.

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00:41:34.020 seen the devastation, it's horrible. When you look at the gun thing, by the way, I have to give you

00:41:42.520 this. Did you see what Marianne Williamson said? Yeah. You know, she is the only person who is doing

00:41:50.100 this, I believe, in the entire Democratic field. If you're talking about the positive thing that

00:41:54.800 she said. Yeah. Okay. So here she said, quote, I know this sounds naive. I didn't think the left

00:42:01.820 was so mean. I didn't think the left lied like this. I thought the right did that. I thought we were

00:42:08.700 better. This is why I said, welcome those people who are waking up. Welcome them because they don't 0.94

00:42:18.920 know and they they've never seen it themselves. There are a lot of people on the right. When things

00:42:25.220 happen, you'll go, I didn't see that coming from my side. I really thought we meant it. And you're

00:42:32.360 waking up. All these people are waking up. And many of them have just truly believed that somehow

00:42:39.780 or another, we really wanted children to die. And once they see it on their side, they they wake up

00:42:47.360 and they're like, okay. And if we're like, see, and we're never like that. No, many of us are not.

00:42:55.840 We we just have bought into it's just them. And I think they're much, much, much, much,

00:43:01.140 much worse. But we have a few people on our side that are just as bad.

00:43:06.820 And if you just say, look, I get it. You know, sometimes people on our side,

00:43:13.960 there's an industry over here trying to shut people up on the left. But it's about 15%. Let's

00:43:20.300 be kind 15% on both sides. The rest of us are normal. We just don't know it about the other one

00:43:27.340 because we've been we've been kept apart. And that's the key. Anyone who is trying to shut

00:43:34.140 you up, anyone who is trying to say Dave Chappelle, shut up, or you shouldn't go see it because of

00:43:39.480 you should disregard those people. You know, it was Bridget Phetasy was on yesterday. And she said,

00:43:46.020 you know, they live in this bubble. And now they're trying to make that bubble even more insulated

00:43:50.660 by saying, hey, you if you even disagree, and you're inside the bubble out of the bubble,

00:43:55.080 because we can't have that in this bubble. That's that's crazy talk.

00:43:59.680 Yeah, I don't know if we have time to get to her the rest of her comments. But maybe we could do

00:44:04.900 that after the break, because it was actually jarring. And you realize how far the left has gone

00:44:09.420 when her statements, which are very innocuous, are jarring to you. I mean, from a presidential

00:44:16.280 candidate, it should not be hard to dig up a Democrat out of a 2526 person field that will say

00:44:22.160 basically generally nice and encouraging things about faith. Right? Like, again, Marianne Williamson

00:44:28.460 has all sorts of problems. And I certainly would not want her to be president of the United States, 0.58

00:44:32.980 or my doctor, or anything else. But like, at least she's acknowledging a role for faith in this

00:44:41.440 country that was, you know, founded on the ideas of freedom of religion.

00:44:46.260 She's the only one that is saying the truth about guns. While she's talking, I'm sure about gun control

00:44:53.520 and everything else. She's also saying this most important, it's not the gun, there's a hole inside

00:44:59.480 of us, something is missing. You know, she says it's love. But I think it's, I mean, it may end there. But

00:45:07.200 there's a lot of stuff missing that leads to love, that we are, we are creating in ourselves,

00:45:14.520 we are allowing to grow and be fostered in our children. And that needs to be addressed far

00:45:20.660 more than the guns do. The Blaze Radio Network. On demand.

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